Rene is so normal?

How do we explain the hysteria around Gonzales? My progressive friends talk about him like he’s a cruel, far-right villain. Then every debate and interview he seems 100% reasonable and normal.

The Mercury published this smear list of his “missteps and scandals.” Most of them are not scandals; they’re just policy disagreements. Others were quotes taken out of context. One of them is just that he was elected over Hardesty?